Ebony Bennett

Ebony, thanks for speaking with me.

Can you lay out for me what the government's proposing?

Now, in the aftermath of the Bondi attack, one of the most shocking revelations was the fact that the older gunman, Sajid Akram, that he had six legally registered guns, even though he was living in the city and his son had been investigated by ASIO.

Why was that able to happen and how do these laws go about addressing that?

If we could talk about the last time that we had major gun reform after Port Arthur, what changes did John Howard make and how do we know about how they actually made the country safer?

Coming up, the unfinished business after Port Arthur.

Ebony, while John Howard's reforms had a big impact, there is some unfinished business from that time.

Could you paint a picture of our current patchwork of gun laws around the country?

And on this issue of how many guns we're allowed to have or the limits, could you tell us, in some states, how many guns we can actually own and what's the maximum?

Ebony, you mentioned the National Register and there's been calls for this since Port Arthur.

Why do we need one?

So Ebony, on that point, what is it that you found out about the numbers and how did they end up increasing after the buyback scheme in the 90s?

So Ebony, John Howard was able to pretty easily change Australia's gun laws and was celebrated for it ever since.

But how's the debate changed to the point where getting both sides of politics to agree on stricter gun control seems almost impossible?

Ebony, thanks for speaking with us on 7am.

Thank you.